A psychologist, author, philosopher, freelance editor,
and skeptic, Dan O’Brien has published several novels and currently has many in
print, including: The End of the World Playlist, Bitten, The
Journey, The Ocean and the Hourglass, The Portent, The
Path of the Fallen, Book of Seth, and Cerulean Dreams. Follow him on
Twitter (@AuthorDanOBrien) or visit his blog at http://thedanobrienproject.blogspot.com. He also works as an
editor at Empirical, a national magazine with a strong West Coast vibe.
Find out more about the magazine at www.empiricalmagazine.com.

Micki Peluso began writing
as a catharsis for grief over the loss of her teenage daughter to a DWI
vehicular homicide. This led to a career as a journalist--staff writer at one
award-winning newspaper and slice of life humorist at her daily newspaper. She
has published short stories and articles, and won contests and awards in
various print magazines, newspapers and e-zines.She reviews books for two noted
book review on-line sites and freelances book reviews. Micki is currently
compiling a collection of her work in a book called "Heartbeats . .
.Slices of Life", to be released in late 2013.

Linda Hales is a writer, committed to publishing
storybooks with a moral for children up to the age of 7. She currently has two
books on her roster, one for each of two new series, 'Sunshine' and 'Andy-Roo'.
In 2013, Linda plans to release two more titles and a coordinated series of
matching coloring books.

Stuart is a writer of fiction and marketing materials and has published 2
novellas of the Harry Patterson Adventures and will publish another in 2013.
His first near-fi novel will be published in Q1 of 2013.

Delinda is a social psychologist and author. Her first
career focussed on special needs populations. She is now using her many years
of experience to write novels touching on the human condition. While writing
about tough subjects Delinda sees the humor in life and tries to give her
stories an element of light. Currently she has three books available "Lies
That Bind", "M'TK Sewer Rat: End of an Empire" and "M'TK
Sewer Rat: Birth of a Nation." Her novel "Something About Maudy"
is due out in the spring of 2013 with "Taking Gramma Home" to follow
in the early summer.

An Argentinean Literature teacher and psychoanalyst, Marta
Merajver-Kurlat has published fiction in Spanish, been translated into English
and Korean, and written most of her non-fiction in English. She is currently
working on a novel in English under the provisional title of The Men in My
Life, to be released soon by Jorge Pinto Books Inc., New York, NY, and
starting a project that reflects her studies of Greek myth.

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Clayton Bye is a writer, editor and publisher. The author of 9 books and a
varied collection of short stories, poems, articles and hundreds of reviews, he
is in the process of releasing his second anthology of short stories by
talented authors from around the world.

Cherrye S. Vasquez is a public school administrator and an adjunct
professor. She specializes in Multi-cultural education and holds certifications
in Early Childhood Handicapped, Mid-Management and Educational Diagnostician.
She loves children and believes that they should love self-first, and affirm
their belief in who they are and what they aspire to become in life. Cherrye’s
platform topics center on diversity and bullying issues, and topics of
relevance which draws effective discourse and dialogue around her platform. She
has published e-zines, two journal books titled: Diversity Daybook: Journal,
and Affirmation Daybook: Journal. Cherrye also worked alongside her
daughter Kelly, as they created a little girl’s diary titled, Guess What?
Dear Diary, Cherrye is the author and her daughter is the illustrator.
Cherrye's second children’s chapter book, Dedicated Identity, will be
released summer 2013

R.L. Cherry- Author, columnist, raconteur

R.L. Cherry has been writing an oft-humorous column on hot rods and classic
cars for The Union newspaper of Grass Valley, CA for over seven years.His first book, Christmas Cracker, was
published in July of 2012.It is a
murder mystery, set in England, with a wise-cracking female detective from
Southern California solving the case.His suspense novel, Foul Shot, about a Chicago Police detective who
becomes involved with a wild, troubled woman who changes his life, is to be
released early in 2013.Three Legs of
the Cauldron, a sago set in early medieval Scotland, is undergoing editing and
scheduled for later in 2013.